WHITE-WINGED TIT. 
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The colour of the plumage is simple and striking ; 
the whole bird, excepting the wings, is of a deep 
and uniform black, reflecting in certain lights a 
slight bluish gloss; the wings are also black, but 
this colour is relieved by the lesser and greater 
covers, as well as the margins of all the quills being 
of a pure snowy w'hite, so that when the wing is 
closed, very little of the black upon them is seen. 
From this circumstance we have named the species, 
there being already a Parus aler, which renders 
that of niger , applied to this species, doubly inap- 
propriate. 
Total length nearly 6 inches ; bill, from the 
gape, | ; wings, 3 ; tail beyond, If ; from the base, 
21, ; tarsus, ; hind toe and claw, 
YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 
Zosterops flam, Swains. 
PLATE III. 
Bright yellow, tinged above with greenish ; eyelids white ; 
between the bill and eye a blackish line. 
We give the vernacular name of Wliite-Eye to a 
singular group of little birds distinguished, among 
other characters, by having the eyelids surrounded 
by a narrow ring of snow-white feathers. They are 
